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Just a bunch of random stuff
Tinfoil hat competition entries at the Equinox Barbecue yesterday. Hat themes, L-R top row: nuclear cooling tower by Rob; BSD daemon by Paul; WTF? by Masa hand modelled by me; Disaster Airlines by me; Turkish fez by Yasu. L-R bottom row: propeller beanie by Tracey modeled by Max; wonder woman by Sareh modeled by Tracey;…
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Tokyo’s food supply
It didn’t take long to get back to “normal”
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We’ll leave when…
…the Japanese government announces Tokyo evacuations.
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Non-electric housecleaning
Dusting, check. Scrubbing, check. Vacuuming…no.
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Tokyo transit & other notes
with video of train trip across town
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Notes from Utsunomiya
Blackouts and gas shortages
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Observations on power conservation & food shortages
Rolling blackout are in effect throughout Kanto but there are so many individuals and businesses trying to conserve energy that only one of the 7 planned outages happened today. Who know about tomorrow, but let me tell you what I saw (and Tod told me about) around in Tokyo today. Train companies reduced services drastically.…
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Maintaining sanity in a stressed environment
Here we are a few days after the big earthquake. Things are grim up north as the death toll rises and tense as nuclear plants struggle to cool their reactors. Around Tokyo we have power shortages with schedule blackouts and a there’s good likelihood of another earthquake that we’ll feel strongly in the next couple…
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Post-quake power issues
Nuclear emergencies and power shortages.
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Grocery non-shopping
Limited options
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